Cleveland Clinic and IBM unveil world’s first quantum computer dedicated to healthcare research

Cleveland Clinic and IBM recently unveiled the first quantum computer in the world to be uniquely dedicated to healthcare research with an aim to help accelerate biomedical discoveries.

Vizient Innovative Technology contract awarded to Fresenius Kabi for Ivenix Infusion System

Fresenius Kabi, a global health care company that specializes in medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion, and clinical nutrition, announced that its Ivenix Infusion System has received an Innovative Technology contract from Vizient, the United States’ largest member-driven healthcare performance improvement company. Vizient members include more than half of all acute care hospitals in the […]

AIDAPTUS, Reddot winner 2023

Owen Mumford wins Red Dot design award for its Aidaptus single-use auto-injector

Owen Mumford has been awarded a prestigious Red Dot award for its Aidaptus single-use auto-injector launched in 2021. Aidaptus wins the Red Dot award for the category Product Design 2023.

Orion Health appoints Mark Hindle as vice president, UK and Ireland

Orion Health has appointed Mark Hindle as its new vice president for the UK and Ireland. Mark has joined the leading supplier of digital tools to improve healthcare experience from Evergreen Life, a personal health record app provider.

University Hospital Southampton patients first in world to access gestational diabetes testing at home

Digital clinical diagnostics and diabetes home testing provider Digostics and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) have established a partnership that will see expectant mothers under the care of UHS maternity services become the first, anywhere in the world, to access new, ground-breaking remote testing technology designed to improve screening for gestational diabetes mellitus […]

Proxim Diagnostics receives strategic investment from bioMérieux

Proxim Diagnostics receives strategic investment from bioMérieux

Santa Clara, California-based Proxim Diagnostics, a company developing a handheld, point-of care diagnostic device, has received a strategic investment from bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics.

SolasCure closes £10.9m Series B fundraiser to advance wound care innovation

SolasCure closes £10.9m Series B fundraiser to advance wound care innovation

SolasCure, a biotechnology company developing a hydrogel containing a recombinant enzyme derived from maggots which aims to accelerate wound debridement, has announced the completion of its £10.9m (about US$13.3m) Series B investment round.

New prevention strategy offers employers solution to psychosocial workload

Bullying, cross-border behaviour and work pressure are forms of psychosocial workload (PSA) that are increasingly attracting attention. Important, because burnout, stress and depression are consequences of PSA and thus the main occupational diseases in the Netherlands. A sick employee costs on average €250 a day, increasing the importance of prevention. The new prevention strategy of […]

Philips partners with AWS to put PACS in the cloud and enhance AI tools

Global health technology leader Royal Philips has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer Philips HealthSuite Imaging on AWS. This new addition to Philips’ enterprise informatics capabilities will provide radiologists and clinicians with improved access speeds, reliability, and data orchestration across the entire imaging workflow, from diagnosis to therapy selection, treatment, and follow-up.

Improving the accuracy of near-infrared fluorescence in cardiovascular imaging

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) or heart diseases are still the leading cause of death globally. Fortunately, doctors are now equipped with more advanced and sophisticated tools that help them diagnose CVDs. A prominent example is intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), which enables cardiologists to obtain images of the inside of blood vessels using a thin ultrasound probe. These […]